LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Gretchen is damned, and Faust goes to Heaven.
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Gretchen goes to Heaven, and Faust is damned.
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Both Gretchen and Faust are damned.
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Both Gretchen and Faust go to Heaven.
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Neither Gretchen nor Faust go to Heaven or to Hell.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Meanwhile, Gretchen’s mother dies from a drug overdose given to her to facilitate their trysts, Mephistopheles leads Faust to slay Gretchen’s brother, and Gretchen herself dies, pronounced “redeemed” by a voice assumed to be the creator.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the final scenes Faustus becomes terrified by the thought of his impending damnation and desperately wants to save himself, but his faith in God’s merciful love is not strong enough and he cannot repent. After a painful struggle with himself, Faustus is carried off by the devil at the end of the play.
Detailed explanation-3: -Considered in this philosophical context, Faust’s many adventures all communicate the message that to find happiness man must learn to conquer the lower elements of his nature and live constructively within the framework imposed on him.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the end Goethe saves Faust by bringing about his purification and redemption. Hector Berlioz was moved to create a dramatic cantata, The Damnation of Faust, upon the French version of Goethe’s dramatic poem by Gérard de Nerval. This work, first performed in 1846, is also staged as an opera.